New story, figured I'd give the ever famous Elliot and Olivia pairing a try c: Tell me what you think. I don't own any SVU materials, characters, ideas, zilch. Enjoy.


Chapter one

Elliot Sabler was not a man who talked about his personal life at work. It wasn't anyone's business and he didn't always feel like talking about his four kids and wife. Life wasn't always easy for the ex Marine, but he did what he could to make things work. Especially now that everything had flipped upside down. Kathy had left him and visiting with the kids was not only a pain in the ass to set up, but awkward.

He didn't understand. After twenty years of marriage, four kids, and even a frightful suspension, why was she now leaving him? Hadn't he been faithful enough? Didn't he enlist in the Marines for Kathy and their new born daughter, so that he could pay the bills? And after he left the Marines, he joined the police force. Elliot thought that by becoming a cop, Kathy would be pleased that he could put his Marine training to use. He thought Kathy wanted to be protected.

And then Kathleen was born. Money got tighter and stress levels arose. However, the only one in the family who wasn't aggrivated after precious gift number two was Maureen. The tot had been so excited about having a sister. She loved to play dress up and house with the new baby. Elliot couldn't help but adore his oldest daughter as she would stomp around the house in her mother's heels, pushing a toy stroller with her younger sister strapped in. Kathleen didn't seem to mind when Maureen used mommy's lipstick and eyeshadow on her.

The twins, Elizabeth and Richard, came later and the stress levels hightened. Elliot thought taking care of one baby in the middle of the night was tough. But two infants? He pittied the people who had more than two children wailing in the middle of the night. But again, his oldest children were happy about having living dolls. Maureen and Kathleen liked to play mommy and daddy while Lizzie was "their" child and Dickie played the part of their dog. Elliot didn't blame them; even pretending to be first time parents, his daughters knew having twins was not easy.

Years later, Officer Stabler was promoted to Detective Stabler and transferred to the Special Victims Unit. The other officers in his old unit called SVU the Panty Police and Elliot had to admitt, they were somewhat right. Two dectectives in the SVU unit, John Munch and Brian Cassidy, warmly welcomed him became friends rather quickly. He didn't like seeing women women come in, claiming that thier husbands took advantage of them or that their boyfriends raped them. But the cases he hated most, were the ones that involved children. Murdered, sodomized, raped. No child - no human being - should ever be put through something like that.

Two things kept him from going crazy; his wonderful, and amazing family. They always seemed to understand what kind of pressure he was under at work and didn't appear to be bothered by his late hours. And then there was his partner, Olivia Benson. She was tall, tawny haired, slender, and beautiful. Olivia was everything Elliot wasn't; she was kind when people needed a sister, a friend, or a mother, tough when someone wouldn't crack, and she stood up for what she believed in. Elliot was all Marine. However, despite how tough he was, he had only collected one complaint that was later retracted. Olivia was a tough cookie and she was suited to be in the police force. She was so headstrong, she only had one active restraint order on her. But he was married, and Elliot chose his family over satisfaction. Wasn't that enough for Kathy?